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School of Advanced Study Metrics, 2013-14

Table of content:

1. Promotion and facilitation: .......................................................................................... 2• Events ..................................................................................................................... 2• Events Footfall and Podcast Views ......................................................................... 3• Research training provision and delivery ................................................................. 4• Networks and collaborations (hosted and/or supported by the school) .................... 5

2. Research support: ...................................................................................................... 6• Usage of SAS Libraries ........................................................................................... 6• SAS Libraries’ Collections ....................................................................................... 7• Number and Use of digital resources ...................................................................... 8• Range of digital resources ...................................................................................... 9• SAS Publishing: books and monographs .............................................................. 10• SAS Publishing: journals ....................................................................................... 11• Fellowships ........................................................................................................... 12

3. Quality of SAS Research Base: ................................................................................ 13• Staff Research ...................................................................................................... 13• PhD registrations 2013 ......................................................................................... 13• External research grant performance: Applications, Awards, Success rate ........... 14• External Income (spend 2013-14) ......................................................................... 15

December 2014 School Strategic Advisory Group

1 School of Advanced Study Metrics, 2013-14

1. Promotion and facilitation:

• Events The School programme of events, which includes library events, has remained steady since 2012-13. Seminars remain the largest component and has proven to be a very popular format in the humanities and works very well in terms of podcasts. This is confirmed by the significant increase in podcasts usage from 2012-13 (270K in 13-14).

1048 events organised were interdisciplinary, nearly half of the School overall programme. 31% of these events (650 in total) were collaborative, including both HEIs and institutions from the public sector, which all contributed to our public engagement agenda. Other types of collaborators include lawyer or practitioner groups, governmental, local council offices, embassies, museums, and charities. 357 public engagement events, from festivals, book launches, talks and exhibitions were organised in 2013-14, having quadrupled since 2012-13. 52% were in collaboration with non-HEIs, the public and third sectors. Over 10k people attended these events, representing an increase of 64% on 2012-13.

Type and Number of Events

Seminars 1383 Public engagement 350 Lectures 123 Conferences 175 Workshops 50 Total 2081 Total Hours Delivered 7749


• Events Footfall and Podcast Views

The School has recorded an increase in its events footfall of 10% with the majority of speakers coming from outside the UK.

While attendance varies widely from within the UK, the number of streams and downloads is much higher from outside the UK, with an increase of 35% from last year. The School holds 96 collections on ITunes and 15 playlists on YouTube.

Footfall

Origin Speakers Participants

UoL 1,472 19,653

London 1,201 16,971

Rest of the UK 2,200 14,527

Rest of World 2,389 5,602 Total 7,203 56,752

Podcasts

Record Views Total

Streams 66.7K

Downloads 63.1K

Views/visits 151.2K


• Research training provision and delivery The number of research training events held this year was higher than 2012-13. Events vary in format from one-to-one sessions, to curriculum-led as well as graduate-led workshops and seminars. We expect the figures to continue to increase with the programme of training associated with the new London Arts and Humanities Partnership.

19% of events were collaborative with HEIs, another 6% between institutes, and 14% with non-HEIs and organizations from both the public and private sectors including the British Library, English Heritage and TNA. Footfall has increased since 2012-13 by about 20%.

Overall usage of our portals, (inc. PORT, which offers online research training and resources in modern languages) shows the wide geographical reach of the School research training progamme and has recorded 221K page views in 2013-14, which nearly tripled since 2012-13, which recorded 86K page views then.

Number of Events

Research Training Summer Schools Number of Events Total Hours Number of Events Total Hours

213 1328:40 11 435

Footfall

Origin Speakers Participants

UoL 341 3448

London 101 331 Rest of the UK 108 758

Rest of the World 40 387

Total 591 4924


• Networks and collaborations (hosted and/or supported by the school)

The School actively supports over 300 networks and collaborations and is a member of over 120 (excluding staff’s personal networks). This represents a 12% increase from 2012-13. These networks attract over 18k of researchers and over 4k of institutions, which are predominantly UK-based.

The number of networks varies, from institute to institute, between 11 up to 70 per institute. Among the 300 it actively supports, the School itself hosts 192 networks, mostly national in scope, which represents 46% of the overall number. Over 53% of these networks contribute to the School event programme and 21% to School publishing activities. 62% of networks hosted by the School are national in remit. The majority of outputs from these networks are events, publications, digital partnerships, grant applications and funding partnerships.

Number of Networks and Collaborations

Research related 223 Subject field/discipline-specific 124

Event related 140

Publications Related 50 Digital Resources Related 24 Research Training 31 Fellowship related 14 Policy-making 13 Library related 12 Teaching related 10 Total 423


2. Research support:

• Usage of SAS Libraries

Visits to SAS libraries record a much higher number of students than are registered users. These statistics include four of the SAS-owned libraries: Legal, Classical, Historical and Warburg libraries, and exclude the Germanic, Latin American and Commonwealth collections which are comingled with Senate House Library.

SAS Libraries’ usage

MPhil/ PhD

Academic Staff

MA Students

Independent Scholars

Non-HEI commercial

/private companies

Non-HEI Public Sector

Other Total

Readers Registrations 3,559 6,690 3,561 2,640 687 196 988 18,321

Footfall 49,692 35,913 73,926 8,341 1,366 1,035 6,295 202,891

E-Resources (page views) 147,020 162,725 397,289 668 707,702

Loans 6,806 4,697 210 777 23 25,925 38,438

The number of readers registered remains consistent with 2012-13 figures. However, the number of footfall is 4% higher than 2012-13 with an additional 8k of visitors in 2013-14.


• SAS Libraries’ Collections SAS libraries collections have increased overall since 2012-13, in particular electronic resources which have quadrupled (2,614 items recorded in 2012-13).

Physical Stock No. of Books and

Pamphlets No. of

Serial titles No. of

Microfilms No. of

Microfiches No. of

Cassettes Total

688,946 206,884 5,007 44,796 204 945,837

The annual survey conducted by BAILII demonstrated in 2013: 93 university and college libraries in the UK and Ireland responded and 70% stated that the British and Irish Legal Information Institute at www.bailii.org/ was ‘The most popular free website with legal content which assists teaching staff and students in their law studies and which they access frequently.‘

Catalogue additions have doubled since 2012-13, when recorded 18,994 items were recorded.

Electronic Resources

Electronic Databases

Electronic Journal

Collections

Electronic Books

Electronic Primary

Resources

CD-ROMs - stand alone

CD-ROMs - networked DVDs Total

27 290 0 6,881 857 301 68 8,424

Serial Titles

Periodical Titles Added 2013-14

Total Periodical Titles

Book Serial Titles

14 61 4,534

Acquisitions 2013-14

Books and Pamphlets Serial Volumes Withdrawals Total

8,325 2,864 251 10,938

Catalogue additions 2013-14 New

Records Records Edited Total

10,261 36,151 46,412


• Number and Use of Digital Resources The number of resources has increased since 2012-13, in particular project blogs and other scholarly communication platforms, though usage figures remain relatively constant in comparison with last year. Downloads of particular resources available at the School such as papers on our institutional repository SAS-Space, images via the Iconographic collection of the Warburg Institute, or PDF files such as the BAILII quick guide available via the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies website, represent 4.3m overall. Streams have increased overall by 32% since 2012-13.

Unique users have increased by 22% since 12-13

Subscribers represent over 45k of individuals across all platforms. Usage of social media and blogs has also increased from 2012-13, from 10K ‘likes’ and 20k followers, to 23.7k and 24.2k respectively.

Record Views

Total Visits Total Unique Visitors Total Page Views Total Streams Total Downloads

20,780,395 11,066,989 85,246,630 66,796 4,386,210

Subscribers and users

Total Subscribers Total Likes Total Followers

45,390 23,714 24,226


• Range of Digital Resources

The range of digital resources continues to grow and diversify, and while overall the usage has remained consistent with the previous year, SAS e-repositories’ usage doubled since 2012-13 (from a record view of 29.8k), our events websites (including PhilEvents and HistEvents) have also nearly doubled allowing SAS to pass 1 million views with this type of resources. As noted earlier, portals have more than doubled their record views from 81.2K in 2012-13. Resources which include data platforms have increased by 300,000 views,

teaching and learning resources have increased by 100,000 views.

Type Number Page Views % of total page views

Society’s websites, including friends and alumni 8 113,276 0.13%

School centres’ websites 16 299,279 0.35% School and Institute main websites 11 7.1m 8.37% E-journals hosted/run by the School 8 1.46m 1.72% E-repositories; 3 65k 0.08 Events websites 10 1.12m 1.32% Online databases (Digital repositories of primary and secondary sources…) 8 62m 72.77%

Portals 5 221k 0.26%

Project websites (active) 25 2.4m 2.86%

Project websites (no longer active) 5 367k 0.43% Research resources 39 9.4m 11.06% Teaching and learning resources. 3 426.6k 0.50% Blogs 25 84.5k 0.10% Podcast Platforms 4 see downloads 0.00% Social media and network platforms 42 49.8k 0.06% Total 212 85,246,630 100%


• SAS Publishing: books and monographs 28 titles were published (some in a variety of formats) under the School’s name this year. An additional four were published early autumn 2014 for which the work had been undertaken in 2013-14.

The School still publishes predominantly in paperback. The publications are mainly disciplinary, 29% are interdisciplinary, and 50% produced with non-HEI institutions.

SAS Publishing

Number of Titles 28

Solely by SAS Publishing 20 Jointly with another publisher 6

By another publisher on behalf of SAS 2


• SAS Publishing: journals The School manages 15 journals and 52 issues were published in 2013-14: 67% of our journals are interdisciplinary.

SAS Journals

Number of Journals Solely by SAS Jointly with another publisher By another publisher on behalf of SAS

15 3 6 6

E-journals’ usage show 1.4m page views in 2013-14. While this represents 2% of the total record views across the School’s resources, it is an important increase from 2012-13, which recorded 1.15m. There are approximately 24K users of open-access journals. Like the publishing activities, SAS journals show an equal split between disciplinary (53%) and interdisciplinary (47%) coverage.


• Fellowships The School fellowship schemes aim to provide a supportive and well-resourced research environment for scholars at all levels and from all around the world. In 2013-14, 135 fellows visited the School and 56% contributed to the School programme of activities, whether by speaking at events in SAS or at partner institutions. 70% of these visiting fellows came from Europe or the Rest of the World, which represents a 23% increase of international fellows from 2012-13. 45% were early-career researchers, while 36% were mid-career to professorial level.

Visiting fellowships attract primarily overseas scholars (EU and US). All other fellows are mainly from the UK and the EU. 38 % or 51 visiting fellows conducted interdisciplinary research and around 50% contributed to the School outputs in 2013-14, primarily the School’s event programme.

Fellows

Type Number

Visiting Fellows 135 Honorary Senior Research Fellows 304

Associate Fellows 292 Other 12 Total 743

Number of visiting fellows at the stage of their careers

Early - C Mid - C Prof level

61 28 22

Number of visiting fellows per subject fields

Disciplinary interdisciplinary

66 51


3. Quality of SAS Research Base:

• Staff Research Members of the School, and members of staff in particular, produce and disseminate research which underpin the School’s research promotion and facilitation mission. In 2013-14, SAS recorded over 400 publications produced by staff and senior research fellows.

Representing 25.5 FTE*, our core academic members of staff generated over 300 different outputs in 2013-14 (which, with outputs from non-core and senior fellows, increase to more than 700). Outputs include talks, keynote speeches, radio and TV interviews, editing, reviews, conference papers, as well as the publication of articles and other works, whether linked to personal research, to the externally-funded project they are leading or collaborating on, or consultancy for which their particular expertise was sought. (Item 9d provides a sample of the publications over the last five years from the current School academic staff.)

• PhD registrations 2013 Overall the number of PhD students increased by 13% in 2013-14 (56 FT/29PT/16W). No PRES was conducted this year. The next national survey on postgraduate research experience will be conducted in 2014-15.

Academic Staff and Senior Fellows’ Publications

Total Publications

Total Core Staff (headcount)

Total Non-Core Staff (headcount)

Total Senior Research Fellows

Average number of publications

397 33* 29 77 2.89

Publications by members of staff include for 2013-14 Monographs 4 Jointly authored or edited works 10 Edited Books 20 Chapters in Books 31 Papers 77 Research Aids 7 Reviews 14 Total 164

Number of Postgraduate Students, 2013 (headcount) Full Time Part Time Writing up

67 35 20


• External research grant performance: Applications, Awards, Success rate

Fewer grant applications were made in 2013-14, however some immediate successes were recorded such as 3 Big Data projects, 1 led by the SAS and two by The National Archives. The sums of money involved are reflective of the collaborative nature of the projects. However the data does not take into account the increasing number of partnerships (inc UNHABITAT) or consultancies being developed in 2013-14. Results on two large grant applications made in 2013-14 are also still pending at the time of writing this report.

SAS has not attained the same success rate as in 2012-13 (42%), but 34% is still at the national average. 2013-14 saw the start of two large projects, including the AHRC funded projects Rethinking the Senses, and Make Do and Mend, and also the HERA project Encounters with Orient in Early Modern Scholarship. Outputs from ongoing research project such as Pushing the Boundaries, funded by the ESRC, included the presentation of a paper in Spanish based on a research article 'The New Wave: Forced Displacement caused by Organised Crime in Central America and Mexico' in Antigua, Guatemala, at an event co-organised with UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

While SAS continues to apply mainly to the RCUK, the Leverhulme Trust and the British Academy, applications to the ERC and REA are increasing, either as lead applicant or collaborator. SAS used 2013-14 to become familiar with Horizon 2020 and EU funding opportunities. This was the first year that six Marie Curie Fellowship applications were submitted on behalf of the School. The School currently holds two Marie-Curie Fellowships.

Number of applications

Submitted Successful Waiting for results Unsuccessful SAS

PI SAS Co-I

SAS sole PI

44 15 7 24 5 8 30

Funding Analysis

Funding sought £4.25m worth of projects / £942.3k (SAS part only)

Funding awarded £240k

Success Rate 34%


• External Income (spend 2013-14) Having had a very successful year in 2012-13, the School research income increased by 37% in 2013-14. Other external income (noted under other sources in the table and graph below) includes consultancies, sponsorships, donations and grants for RPF activities. This has also increased by 22% since 2012-13.

Digital income included projects which were coming to an end, such as the JISC-funded project SMART: the Social Media Assessment for Research Transfer. Fellowships income included the large Andrew Mellon- funded fellowship programme. Additionally, the School holds collaborative doctoral awards and training grants such as the Quantitative Research Skills Training grant, for which income appears under RT. Sources of funding, while predominantly from the UK, also include EU and overseas funds, bringing the total external funding for the School to a little over £3m.

External funding Analysis

Research Income Other external income Core FTE staff (academic only)

Research Income per FTE

£1.84m £1.28m 25.5 £71.7K

1%3% 3%

13%

17%

4%

59%

External Income

Digital

Publications

Events

Other

Fellowships

RT

Research


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